The current statewide minimum wage is $8.75 an hour. That is scheduled to increase to $9 on Dec. 31.

Cuomo has previously said he doubted the Assembly's proposal for a $15 statewide minimum wage would pass the Senate. Cuomo instead had proposed raising the minimum wage to $10.50 with an $11.50 wage for New York City because of its higher cost of living.

Cuomo used his executive power to create a wage board to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers after the legislature failed to agree on a bill this year. A statewide minimum wage increase would require Senate and Assembly approval.

Cuomo's announcement Thursday will come on the same day the Senate's Republican majority holds a hearing in Albany that will question Cuomo's use of a wage board to raise the fast-food minimum wage.